Playing home games at Whitten Oval

[Greystache]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

I'm not convinced there's any upside in trying to develop Whitten Oval over starting from scratch at an empty location. Half of the Whitten stand has been demolished, the other half is borderline a fire trap, the pound and new admin facilities take up a major seating area, as does the elite learning centre, and the old Hawkins wing is just empty space.

With the basketball stadium and the kids center out the back it's probably going to be more difficult and expensive to build at the Whitten Oval than elsewhere. It's a brilliant setup for training and supporters to watch training, and even for practice matches it's ideal, but that's it for me.

[SonofScray]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Totally agree.

Opposition fans should be catered for one reason and one reason alone, to make more money. What do we owe them?

Also, I mentoned it would be for games against GWS, GC etc. Couldn't imagine too many anyway.

My thinking is a crowd of say 15-20k at Whitten Oval = what at ES $$$

What is the current capacity, with no alterations? !5k maybe, or am I dreaming?

[Eastdog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

When they first had the idea to redevelop the Whitten Oval they only intended to improve it for training there and not to play actual matches. I suggested in a post on this thread that we could look into playing homes against GWS, GC etc in Ballarat where we played in the pre-season.

[Bornadog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Greater Western Sydney - New home ground.



Cost $65 million, holds 25,000

This is what can be done at Melbourne's Showgrounds. I think its too late for Whitten Oval. Whitten Oval is now our training facility. We have spent $30 million on it.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

There has been talk of a booteak stadium as one option for the E-Gate site, on the railyards, closer in to Docklands. The state government says that a 'sports facility' could be part of the development. A heap of other things have been mooted there too though.

I think any future Dogs home ground will be built from scratch in another location. Probably a lot further west (which will still be closer to the city than VFL Park is/was).

[GVGjr]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Greater Western Sydney - New home ground.

Cost $65 million, holds 25,000

This is what can be done at Melbourne's Showgrounds. I think its too late for Whitten Oval. Whitten Oval is now our training facility. We have spent $30 million on it.

That's what we should be aiming for. A cost effective ground where we could play 3 or 4 home games. The Whitten Oval is a training facility not a playing venue.

[Eastdog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Greater Western Sydney - New home ground.



Cost $65 million, holds 25,000

This is what can be done at Melbourne's Showgrounds. I think its too late for Whitten Oval. Whitten Oval is now our training facility. We have spent $30 million on it.

Melbourne Showgrounds on forums has been rumoured as where the 3rd stadium would be located. It still will be in a pretty central location and close to the city.

[Bornadog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Melbourne Showgrounds on forums has been rumoured as where the 3rd stadium would be located. It still will be in a pretty central location and close to the city.

Also good access with parking, trains etc

[Eastdog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Also good access with parking, trains etc

Etihad definitely struggles in the parking department.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

I could understand with daytime NAB Cup matches but not really AFL games , on Sunday we had 1,500 or so people and you could see that there was probably standing and seating room for 5 or 6 thousand but it would be tight and the facilities would need to upgraded , also the parking in not really adequate for more than 1,000 , any upgrades would require a traffic plan being submitted to council

In reality it would be more feasible to build a 40,000 seat stadium on the available land near Victoria University in Werribee , Wyndham City Council has already held discussions about the future use of the land and a multi use stadium was one of the items discussed , funding would a major issue due to debt loading , if it was possible the Council would approve it based on the economic impact and the sporting facilities needed for a major growth area with a current population of 180,000 , the ground could be used for Rugby and Soccer as well , if the funding was available to own the land and stadium the ongoing overheads would probably not make it viable

The available land is the darker grey

http://goo.gl/MUJuz

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[AndrewP6]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

There has been talk of a booteak stadium as one option for the E-Gate site, on the railyards, closer in to Docklands. The state government says that a 'sports facility' could be part of the development. A heap of other things have been mooted there too though.

I think any future Dogs home ground will be built from scratch in another location. Probably a lot further west (which will still be closer to the city than VFL Park is/was).

No offence, but I laughed.

[Eastdog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Could reviving Waverley Park be another alternative or is that going backwards as Etihad was built as the alternative to Waverley. What do people think of playing games in Ballarat.

[Bornadog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Could reviving Waverley Park be another alternative or is that going backwards as Etihad was built as the alternative to Waverley. What do people think of playing games in Ballarat.

Have you seen Waverley? because if you have then you wouldn't post up that question.

Waverley would be a joke anyway for a Western Suburbs team.

Ballarat needs major work as well.

[Eastdog]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

Have you seen Waverley? because if you have then you wouldn't post up that question.

Waverley would be a joke anyway for a Western Suburbs team.

Ballarat needs major work as well.

I haven't seen it lately but when it was around it was a ground where everyone would play a home game or two there during the season.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Playing home games at Whitten Oval

We may have 30k plus members midway through a season, but we rarely get over 20k people at a game unless it's against top sides. I'd love to be back at the home of Whitten, but in reality, it will never happen unless the admin, the EJ, and the Mission centre are demolished and a complete stadium is built from scratch. With Parking